Practice Quotes
4199 quotes by 2521 authors
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Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting…
— Anthony de Mello
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Repetition is sometimes the best way to deal with the Luideag: just keep saying the same thing over and over until she gets fed up…
— Mira Grant
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The wood nymph instructors left me in the dust. They told me not to worry about it. They'd had centuries of practice running away from…
— Rick Riordan
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This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor…
— Steven Johnson
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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with…
— John Stuart Mill
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A person has to be strong in life. A person must practice strength, even if they don't feel it.
— Ann Rinaldi
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Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams, fantasies, and ordinary…
— Natalie Goldberg
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You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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What? Had a dry spell of killing people lately? (Susan) As a matter of fact, yes. If it doesn’t end soon, I might get out…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might be…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Perfectionism doesn't believe in practice shots. It doesn't believe in improvement. Perfectionism has never heard that anything worth doing is worth doing badly--and that if…
— Julia Cameron
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Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and…
— Charles Robert Maturin
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Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning, 
— Paul Theroux
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UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Practice is funny that way. For days and days, you make out only the fragments of what to do. And then one day you've got…
— Atul Gawande
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My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that…
— Antonio Machado
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Theory is the practice of the impotent.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the…
— Ernest Hemingway
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